Friday, October 02, 2015

I’ve seen a couple of recommendations of Vox Day’s “SJWs Always Lie — Taking Down the Though Police” (incl. from @ProfessorF, whose highlights are here, but also on Reddit and in other places). So I had a look at it and — yep, I like it as well.... So, while I am still on the fence whether SJWs are just over-caring (care as sole moral foundation, and totally helicopter-caring in overdrive), have mental problems (Borderline? Narcissistic? Psychopath?), or are Machiavellian players in today’s society, this book is likely going to be helpful in fighting back.

This is perhaps the most beneficial impact which SJWs Always Lie can make: getting them to understand how others see them. They go months, years, a lifetime in their bubble of blissful self-congratulation. Suddenly Stevil drops a graphic of them that is... not flattering, into the conversation, followed by the screams of observers and a full mock. Learning cannot help but ensue. "We are good people fighting for good things, why must this person point out the jackboots?" This may be the first time they've ever let any opposition pierce through.

See http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/what-does-church-mean, in particular this quote:

"To it [the Church] belong all the saints: from Abel and Abraham and all the witnesses of hope whom the Old Testament tells us, through Mary, the Mother of the Lord, and the Lord’s apostles, through Thomas Becket and Thomas More all the way to Maximilian Kolbe, Edith Stein, and Pier Giorgio Frassati. The Church includes all the unknown and unnamed ‘whose faith is known to him alone,’ it embraces the men of all places and all times whose hearts stretch out in hope and love to Christ, the ‘author and finisher of faith,’ as the letter to the Hebrews calls him (12:2)."—Pope Benedict XVI, Called to Communion, 154

See also the definition at https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/index.cfm?id=32533

"So, while I am still on the fence whether SJWs are just over-caring (care as sole moral foundation, and totally helicopter-caring in overdrive), have mental problems (Borderline? Narcissistic? Psychopath?), or are Machiavellian players in today’s society...

It is an easy thing to just assume that, so long as a man is nice and has good intentions, that he will be just fine, go to Heaven, and be a nice guy forever.

It is a far harder thing to understand that Jesus was an actual man--and The Christ--who did not come to this world to found a loosely organized club of politeness, and who did not come to dump off a book--the Bible--with the intention that 1.5 millenia later, Luther, King James, and so on would "set us all straight" about this "church thing."

Rather, Jesus Christ came to we mortals to found a universal Church--comprised of apostles--and guided by the Holy Spirit with the power to bind and loose the state of men and devils on Earth.

That men choose to ignore this fact does not change what Christ set out to do with His Church, and nor does it change the fact that, at their judgement, all men will acknowledge the authority Christ's Church in this world AND the next.